Pros: cheap type II collagen<br />Cons: Made in China so quality is questionable (for example, is every batch tested for contaminants and also protein (not just nitrogen) content?). Has a bit more of a funky smell than other collagen products.

This chicken collagen turned out to be fine, as far as I can tell. I had been worried because some of the one star reviews claimed that this product had a horrible taste or smell, or it did not dissolve easily. But so far, I have not experienced any significant problems. It dissolves fairly easily in warm or cold tap water, and it has no discernible taste or smell.<br /><br />It's a very fine powder like flour, so if you try to pour it out of the bag, you may get a clump falling out and a small cloud of particles wafting into the air. I think this could be improved by making it a coarser powder like the beef collagen I got from another company. I think that could actually make it dissolve more easily too. But it's not a significant problem.<br /><br />My reason for buying the chicken collagen when I already had the beef collagen is that after reading more about collagen, I found out that chicken collagen is mainly Type 2, which is the best kind for keeping joints and cartilage healthy. And the Type 1 and 3 collagen from cows is less beneficial for joint health, but good for bones, skin, and other things. I still don't know all the details, and should Google the subject.<br /><br />One very puzzling thing about collagen products in general is the price you pay for loose powder vs. the price you pay for collagen in capsules. Let's compare the price per ounce for this powder, vs. the price per ounce for some Type II collagen capsules. I paid $41.96 for 2.2 lbs or 35.2 ounces. So,<br />$41.96/35.2 oz = $1.19 per ounce (approximately) for the Chicken collagen powder I bought.<br /><br />Now Amazon has many brands of Type II collagen powder, but if I search for "Type II Collagen Capsules", the first 4 products on the top line of search results are all "sponsored" (meaning advertisements). And then the 1st product on the 2nd line of results has an "Amazon's Choice" tag on it. So let's look at that one. It is "Jarrows Formula Type II Collagen Complex", and it is a bottle containing 60 capsules with 500 mg of collagen in each capsule.<br />60 x 500mg = 30,000 mg = 30 grams of collagen in this bottle of capsules<br />Now Google tells me that 30 grams = 1.05822 ounces. And the bottle costs $13.59, so the price per ounce is<br />$13.59/1.05822 oz = $12.84 per ounce (approximately)<br />Comparing this price per ounce to the price per ounce for the loose powder I bought,<br />$12.84/$1.19 = 10.79 (approximately)<br /><br />So the collagen in the capsules is almost 11 times the price of the loose powder I bought. Now it's possible that the collagen in the capsules is much higher quality than the loose powder. But is it really so good that a person should pay almost 11 times as much? Of course, I was buying 2.2 pounds in bulk, and the small bags of the same powder are far more expensive per ounce. But for me, buying the capsules would be a bad choice, because I don't like to throw away money.

My knees are terrible. This product, over 4 months (?) has relieved much of the pin, I'm not limping, and swelling is very rare. This is anecdotal...just my observations. It helps that I've lost 40 lbs (another 40 to go), but my knees are far less crunchy.

Seems like a very good price for what you get. The packaging is probably a big factor in keeping prices down. I can't say much for the resealable pouch for this product because it is such a fine powder and impossible to remove from the zip seal track. I just dump the package into a plastic container. Problem solved.

We tried everything to mask the foul flavor... Never successful, now we just add it to the dog's food.<br /><br />It was so bad that we just didn't use it. I ordered some multi-source collagen powder and thought I'd try mixing some of this in there. Probably 1:5 and put it in our popular home made lychee ice cream, no one wanted seconds...<br /><br />Really crapy bad stuff. Only collagen powder I've ever had to check the taste of (in the diluted 1:5 ratio) to make sure that it's foul flavor have not made it through the food its in.<br /><br />When using it first is a exercise in masking and then becomes a chore in masking, I'm done with it....<br /><br />Entirely not worth any benefit it might impart. I'd rather continue to pay premium dollars to order capsules of chicken sternum collagen.<br /><br />I don't know anything about making collagen, but whatever or however this collagen was stripped, it was not cleaned probably or harvested before it went bad..<br /><br />I eat the sternum cartilage on all my roast chickens from Costco and none of it tasted like this and I eat everything, stinky tofu, 1K-year egg and nato.<br /><br />This particular type of stink is putrid and is NOT normal. It reads of decomposition, reminiscent of the bird skeleton that my ornithologist friend found on our road trip and strapped to the top of the car.<br /><br />I highly recommend walking away from this product.

Got this to help replicate another supplement I took that is no longer being produced. Seems to have the same effect; noticed a difference after about 2 weeks; in conjunction with stretching and icing my knees stopped hurting pretty much altogether (without the supplement the stretching/icing wasn't effective)..